Crane lifts track panel into place while engineer supervises

British infrastructure agency running out of money says leaked report

Image: Network Rail media centre

A leaked report has said there is not enough money to do more than make do and mend for the next five years, and Britain will have to live with a rising tide of unplanned repairs and failures. `The report is more revealing than the outgoing agency Network Rail may have liked, and it is certainly embarrassing for the UK government as they prepare to supersede the management of the British network with the even wider-ranging Great British Railways. 

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Crane lifts track panel into place while engineer supervises

British infrastructure agency running out of money says leaked report

Image: Network Rail media centre

A leaked report has said there is not enough money to do more than make do and mend for the next five years, and Britain will have to live with a rising tide of unplanned repairs and failures. `The report is more revealing than the outgoing agency Network Rail may have liked, and it is certainly embarrassing for the UK government as they prepare to supersede the management of the British network with the even wider-ranging Great British Railways. 

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